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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

Cornel West

He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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Ghetto Police Racism
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We’re going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.
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Smiley Water Way
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Entangled Falling Love
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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Hey People Thinking
I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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Believe Christian Intellectual
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.
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People Sight White
Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar

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